If you ignore the recipe instructions to use Citron vodka, a Cosmo is actually a nicely balanced cocktail. I cheat and add a quarter ounce of homemade grenadine to the Cosmos I shake up for the Missus, but the truth is it is a decent drink if it is made correctly.

I love reading about what everyone is drinking... Picked up some rums to make Three Dots and a Dash... and I needed to increase my rum variety anyway...So for Demerara I got a bottle of 12 year El Dorado and for a Martinique rum I got Coeur Ambre... then I realized it might take a little bit to find some pimento liqueur... so instead I made a MaiTai with these two rums... WOW!... really different!

Just replenished my Smith & Cross today and St. James a couple of weeks ago. I believe this will be first in a succession of celebratory cocktails tomorrow at the end of a long and depressingly cocktail free work week.
_________________"If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel."
Robert Louis Stevenson

Mai Tai at Trader Vic Beverly Hills again but this time I was smart enough to wear a bating suit and after after a few drinks I jumped right in the pool. Our waiter who was one of the old waiters from the original Trader vic's didn't seem to mind so I had a great time.